Bruit vs Rumor - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between bruit and rumor

is that bruit is brute, beast while rumor is (us|countable) a statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

As a verb rumor is

(transitive|usually|used in the passive voice) to tell a rumor about; to gossip.

bruit

English

Noun

(-)

(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.

* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7

Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.

* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),

But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.

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, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}

(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)

Verb

(en verb)

(US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.

* 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,

There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.

* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,

And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

Re-speaking earthly thunder.

* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,

Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.

* {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04

, year= , first= , last= , author=Darren Murph , authorlink= , title=China's maglev trains to hit 1,000km/h in three years , site=Engadget citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-03-18 , passage= … it's bruited that the tunnel would cost "10 to 20 million yuan … }} ----

rumor

English

Alternative forms

* rumour (UK, Commonwealth, International)

Noun

(US, countable) A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable source, usually spread by word of mouth.

There's a rumor going round that he's going to get married.

(US, uncountable) Information or misinformation of the kind contained in such claims.

They say he used to be a thief, but that's just rumor .

Synonyms

* (piece of information) * (information) gossip, hearsay, talk, tittle-tattle

Derived terms

* rumor campaign * rumor has it

Hypernyms

* information

Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, usually, used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip.

John is rumored to be next in line for a promotion.

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